Weld Out Inspector

LED FastStart • Livingston, LA

10d

About The Position

Epic Piping is hiring a Weld Out Inspector to join its QA/QC team. The inspector ensures the quality and conformity of welded products and components across projects, supporting company safety, environmental, and quality standards. The role includes inspecting work in progress and completed jobs, evaluating defects, documenting inspection and test results, and providing input on whether products should be accepted or rejected.

The position uses specifications, blueprints, manuals, codes, and standards to conduct inspections and tests. It also involves communicating production and quality issues, recommending corrective actions and process improvements, maintaining inspection equipment, and supporting compliance with environmental and safety requirements. The job requires a bachelor’s degree or a qualifying combination of related experience and training, 2–3 years of related experience, and the listed welding inspection certifications.

Epic Piping describes itself as a privately owned pipe fabrication firm serving the chemical, power, refining, offshore, and oil and gas industries. It offers training, mentorship, coaching, career growth opportunities, and a supportive, collaborative work environment. Employment offers are contingent on successful background check, drug screening, and U.S. work authorization checks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university, or one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2–3 years of related experience.
• Certified Welding Inspector AWS-CWI/SCWI 3.1/3.2 certification.
• ASNT VT Level II/III certification.
• No specific computer skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Perform visual inspections of welded products in progress and completed jobs; identify defects such as cracks, porosity, and undercut.
• Plan and conduct analysis, inspection, testing, and integration activities to assure the quality of assigned products or components.
• Review welded products and components and provide input on whether to accept or reject them.
• Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications and environmental standards.
• Read blueprints, data, manuals, and other materials to determine specifications and inspection, testing, adjustment, certification, and measurement requirements.
• Measure product dimensions using instruments such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.
• Record inspection and test data and document quality assurance activities in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Write inspection or test reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.
• Communicate significant quality issues and production problems to management, supervisors, or other personnel and recommend process improvements or corrective actions.
• Maintain working knowledge of government and industry quality assurance codes and standards.
• Mark items with grade or acceptance/rejection status and discard or reject items that do not meet specifications.
• Collect or select samples for testing or use as models; compare product characteristics with charts, templates, or samples to verify conformity.
• Analyze test data and compute defect percentages, averages, or usable shipment quantities as necessary.
• Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments and test equipment; read equipment dials or meters to verify specified operation.
• Check arriving materials against purchase orders and submit discrepancy reports when necessary.
• Fabricate, install, position, connect, or disassemble components or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
• Monitor production operations, processing equipment, and automated inspection machines for conformance; make necessary process or assembly adjustments.
• Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.
• Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.
• Interpret legal requirements and provide safety information or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance and benefit options.
• Company-paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance.
• Paid vacation and holiday time.
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans, with a 50% company match up to 6% contributed by the employee.
• Industry-leading training and development programs.
• Career growth opportunities through hands-on training and mentorships.
• Coaching from experienced leaders.
• Opportunities to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
• Supportive and collaborative work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level